Albert Charles Wright (4 April 1895 – 26 May 1959) was an English

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in 225 matches between 1921 and 1931.Carlaw, Derek (2020)
Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part Two: 1919–1939
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. Wright was a

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right-arm fast-medium bowler and a right-handed lower-order batsman who frequently contributed useful runs. After a few matches in 1921 and 1922, he became a regular member of the Kent team in 1923 and remained a regular choice until the middle of the 1931 season, when he lost form and was dropped, not regaining his place in the side. Wright and George Collins provided the seam bowling alternative to the spin of Tich Freeman and

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which dominated Kent's bowling across the 1920s. Both his best batting and bowling performances came in the 1924 season, relatively early in his first-class career. Against

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in June 1924 in the second innings he scored 81, putting on 157 in about 75 minutes for the eighth wicket with the debutant Alan Hilder, which stood as the Kent record for that wicket until 2007. In August of the same year, he took five

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wickets for 33 runs in the first innings and followed that with seven for 31 in the second innings, providing both his best innings and match figures. In 1925, in the match against

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, Wright was the first victim in a sequence of four wickets in five balls by the Warwickshire player Robert Cooke; in Warwickshire's second innings, Wright returned the favour with a

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in which Cooke was one of his victims. Wright's best seasons as a bowler were 1926 and 1927 and in both of these years he took more than 100 wickets at an

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below 21 runs per wicket. His aggregates fell away from 1928 as Freeman came to dominate Kent's bowling almost single-handedly, and he was also more expensive from 1928 onwards. He remained a useful lower-order batsman, and passed 50 nine times in all, scoring more than 500 runs in both 1924 and 1929.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wright, Charlie 1895 births 1959 deaths English cricketers Kent cricketers Cricketers from Kent 20th-century English sportsmen